We are down to just opinions so I'll shut up now.

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Andrew Kelley <superjo...@gmail.com>wrote:

> I'm not going to remove mention of the *fact* that coffee-script does not
> support function hoisting, which is the *main suggestion *of the style
> guide. Your "only algorithm change" destroys the ability to put
> "synchronous code" first, followed by purely a list of function
> declarations, which is the very thing the article is talking about. This is
> a simple provable fact. I'm confused as to why you are arguing about
> something that is so logically obvious.
>
> On Tuesday, August 20, 2013 2:47:57 PM UTC-4, Mark Hahn wrote:
>>
>> > I meant to show that applying this pattern without knowing what it
>> actually does can lead to cases where it simply doesn't work.
>>
>> Of course if someone doesn't apply the pattern correctly it won't work.
>> This is true for all patterns.  There is nothing inherently dangerous about
>> this one.
>>
>> I don't know why people have negative opinions about something simple
>> that makes code readable.  Maybe it is a bias against coffeescript in
>> general.
>>
>> I am still of the strong opinion that the blog linked in the OP should be
>> edited to remove the claim that coffeescript can't implement the pattern.
>>  I defy anyone to show me some javascript code for that pattern that I
>> can't convert to coffeescript with the only algorithm change being to add a
>> start call at the bottom.  That call does not negate any advantages of the
>> blog's pattern.
>>
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